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The Material staff pickAuthor: Camille Bordas Publisher: Serpent's Tail Hardback One of our books of the year 2024! Sam says: Its a bold thing to write a novel about the inner lives of comedians. Even bolder for a writer who has previously written two novels in French, and who is writing their first novel in English. The Material is truly impressive! It follows students and teachers on a fictional stand up comedy MFA in Chicago over the course of a day as they prepare for a

It is about controlling the body and the mind

Author: Proust

which he taped to his wrists

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Working in an office amidst the East End's bombsites

steering Fin through the events that led up to The Great Subsidence

But as the new left poured into Labour

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Autism may be relatively new as a term and a diagnosis

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When the star actor finally arrives

Ji-won becomes more and more obsessed with his brilliant blue eyeballs